Omg I Read Something That Said You Should Write Whatever You Feel Like Writing In The Moment To Avoid

update: it's 4:30AM and my au information has doubled....

I'm finally writing a backstory for my villain in my ninjago au..... >:)

she doesn't have a name though...help her XD

Okay, I went super silly and made the frappuccino-coded drink from Too Sweet by ninjagoat on Ao3 <3

I was planning on doing a swirl situation but it did not work out XD

It was actually really good o.o

I really miss Cole's downturned eyes from Seasons 8-10... they just made him look so kind... this is a guy with so much love and kindness in his heart... If I saw him I would befriend him.

UM? i just got to the end of episode 25 AND????? UM????? IT JUST REACHED INSANE LEVELS VERY QUICKLY

bestie, I've jumped in w you

I love this show (rottmnt) it's so good ;-;

I KNOW, RIGHT??!! It's so silly and lovable X3

Just wait until the movie though. That one's a serious gut wrencher :')

I'm feeling an intense need to bring a uv light when I go thrifting from now on....

Do you guys wanna come over to my house and eat off my uranium glass plates and drink out of my uranium glass cups?

THE KAI DRAGGING GOT ME SO BAD 😭

I HAD TO EDIT THIS

*incoherent sobbing*

the land of lost things

bro yes yes YES, I can't stress how much I miss my boy ;-; This is such a perfect explanation of him™. He has always been my favourite and after all this time, after all the episodes I watched, even if I thought I might've liked others more now. It's still him, it always will be ;-;

Thinking about Jay’s role in the team, and I know I’ve mentioned before that Jay’s main themes are family, and that if given the choice between his close circle of loved ones and the greater good he’ll choose the former, but also another thing that sets him apart from everyone else is the reason why he’s a ninja. With characters like Zane and Cole it’s mentioned multiple times that their purpose is to take care of others, those who can’t protect themselves. Nya and Kai also have this duty/responsibility theme that makes a lot of sense considering the circumstances they both grew up in, and that they both have in common that they want to prove themselves at first and then focus on the role that “they’re supposed to” play (aka; Kai accepting that his role isn’t to be the green ninja and that his duty is to protect Lloyd, and Nya accepting to stop being the samurai X which was her way of proving herself even without being a ninja and in the end becoming the water ninja). Lloyd has a mix of all of this because he's constantly the chosen one in every situation since he was 10, and it's all he knows as a way of life, but back to the topic:

Jay has nothing to do with this.

And I'm not saying that Jay doesn't care about helping people, or anything like that. It's just that it's very interesting that he's the furthest away from having this motivation to be a ninja. Even Wu, in one of the books, confirms that Jay in the pilots saw the opportunity to be a ninja as an excuse to have exciting adventures after a rather humble life in which Jay was going from one hobby to another.

And while the other roles in the team always come back to the theme of protecting others and all that, the reason why Jay is chosen instead is because he's a dreamer. In the flashback and the Ninja of Lightning book Wu explains that the reason he chose Jay was precisely because he had this ability to think outside the box and motivate others with his sense of humor. In almost every first season there is an instance where Jay quickly adapts to a situation just by seeing the other side of things that others don't see, and having this amount of skills: He's the one who discovers how to do spinjitzu, who finds the temple of light, who adapts first to space/digiverse, who does best in the Ninja Roll episode, etc. It's not that Jay is the smartest or strongest, but give him anything and the guy, in some unconventional way, will try to take advantage of it and build a spaceship out of literal scrap metal.

There aren't really many examples of this in the later seasons, BUT, it's worth noting that Wu also chose him because Jay knows how to motivate others with his sense of humor. And what does he do in S12 when he's separated from the others and trapped in a video game? He makes a resistence to oppose Unagami and inspire people who were also trapped in that game.

With all that being said, I just wanted to point out how distinct Jay's role on the team is and his motivation for being a ninja in the first place. It's not like he has this heroic duty, or necessarily wants to do justice, he's just a guy with a normal life who wanted to have exciting adventures and tap into this creativity of his and do some good in the process if it ended up working out. Which is sad with how things are right now but whatever…

thank you, i fucking love them

can't wait to watch season 2

dude, no literally. Ima be honest. I skimmed through the new season JUST to find my boy. and then I realized he is still my favourite after all these years......I miss hims sillies ;-;

Guys very random but do you think that they're keeping Jay in evil purgatory because he's the most devicive old gen ninja and this is the optimum way of keeping the old gens attached to DR as it gains popularity? (I barely go here)

But I've seen people who dislike him for being the chatty/yelly one or whatever he does 🫠 And there's the people who like him for being whatever he does

So you're here for ninjago as a whole, but Jay is either keeping you coming back because either you have to see his 9 minutes to total screen time per season and or jaya angst. Or you're here because lmao Jay's not here AND IS EVIL let's enjoy rightfully disliking his actions for the time being.